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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Gemma 4 E4B IT

Compare recorded price, context, output limits, speed, latency, capabilities, and input/output support. Every missing value stays visible, and unsourced benchmarks are excluded.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Gemma 4 E4B IT both come up when teams are choosing a model for production work, and the honest answer usually depends on your workload rather than a leaderboard. This page puts their published specifications side by side — context window, token pricing, supported inputs and outputs — so you can see where they actually differ.

Side-by-sideReviewed by our team

Google

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Google's low-cost Gemini 3 model with a 1,048,576-token context window, vision support, and $0.30/$2.50 per million token pricing for volume workloads.

Context
1.0M
Max output
65.5K
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
Output speed
—

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input
  • Video input
  • Audio input
  • PDF input

Produces

  • Text output
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Google

Gemma 4 E4B IT

Open Gemma instruction model for efficient chat and self-hosted deployments

Context
131.1K
Max output
8.2K
Input / 1M
$0.04
Output / 1M
$0.20
Output speed
—

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input
  • Audio input

Produces

  • Text output
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At a glance

Decision snapshot

This is a directional summary of the values recorded in this directory—not a universal quality verdict. Test the finalists on your own prompts before committing.

Where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads in recorded data

  • Context capacity: 1.0M
  • Maximum output: 65.5K

Where Gemma 4 E4B IT leads in recorded data

  • Input price: $0.04
  • Output price: $0.20

Context capacity

Higher listed limit

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:1.0M

Gemma 4 E4B IT:131.1K

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Maximum output

Higher listed limit

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:65.5K

Gemma 4 E4B IT:8.2K

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Input price

Lower recorded price

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:$0.30

Gemma 4 E4B IT:$0.04

Gemma 4 E4B IT

Output price

Lower recorded price

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:$2.50

Gemma 4 E4B IT:$0.20

Gemma 4 E4B IT

Output speed

Higher recorded throughput

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:—

Gemma 4 E4B IT:—

No complete comparison

Time to first token

Lower recorded latency

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:—

Gemma 4 E4B IT:—

No complete comparison

Intelligence Index

Higher directory index

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite:—

Gemma 4 E4B IT:—

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Evidence

Verified shared benchmarks

A score appears only when both records include a verified source. It is not treated as a universal ranking.

These two models haven't been measured on the same benchmark yet, so there's nothing meaningful to chart. Comparing scores from different tests would tell you more about the tests than the models — the specs and pricing above are the better guide here.

Specifications

Pricing, limits and capabilities

SpecificationGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemma 4 E4B IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Model familygemini-flash-litegemma
Accepted inputstext, image, video, audio, pdftext, image, audio
Produced outputstexttext
Context window1.0MRecorded lead131.1K
Max output65.5KRecorded lead8.2K
Intelligence Index——
Input price / 1M$0.30$0.04Recorded lead
Output price / 1M$2.50$0.20Recorded lead
Output speed——
Time to first token——
Reasoning modeDocumentedDocumented
Tool callingDocumentedDocumented
Image inputDocumentedDocumented
Audio inputDocumentedDocumented
Structured outputDocumentedDocumented
LicenseProprietaryOpen weights
ReleasedJul 21, 2026Apr 2, 2026

Workload guidance

Which model should you choose?

On the published numbers, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts the larger context window and Gemma 4 E4B IT is cheaper per input token. Which matters more depends on whether your bottleneck is document size or spend — the table above has the exact figures.

Provenance

Sources and data limits

Prices and hosted performance can change. SyncDev records source references and clearly separates documented specifications from measured values; confirm commercial terms with the provider before deployment.

Questions people ask

It compares recorded context and output limits, token prices, output speed, time to first token, Intelligence Index, modality support, tool and structured-output capabilities, release information, and only source-linked benchmarks verified on both records. Missing information is labeled rather than inferred.

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